Hi,
I am the owner of 2 full licences for HSF modem drivers since several
years (for 2 laptops). Today I discovered the PowerTOP utility
(http://www.linuxpowertop.org/) and ran it on my Dell Latitude D820.
To my surprise, I get the following picture:
24.0% (258.0) <interrupt> : HDA Intel
17.8% (191.0) firefox-bin : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
13.5% (144.8) <interrupt> : nvidia
12.3% (132.0) <interrupt> : i8042
12.0% (129.0) khsfd/azsoar : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
4.4% (47.4) modprobe : cnxthsf_OsCreatePeriodicTimer (TimeOutHandler)
4.2% (45.4) Xorg : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
3.1% (33.0) Xorg : do_setitimer (it_real_fn)
1.4% (14.8) fluxbox : schedule_timeout (process_timeout)
Clearly, the HSF modem is eating much power through first the HDA
Intel interrupts (this does not happen if I use the alsa module of the
kernel 2.6.21.1) but also through khsfd and the
cnxthsf_OsCreatePeriodicTimer -- a total of 40% ! Are there any plans
for the power consumption to be improved? (About half an hour of
battery life can be gained this way I think.)
Regards,
ChriS